[Rivet] Rivet/MCplot - getting into some ALICE analyses...

[Peter Skands]

Hi Antonin,

Apologies for the delay in answering - I was away for a long holiday over 
Easter. All the identified-particle analyses you mention sound interesting to 
get in Rivet (in cc). Strangeness (and multistrange) fractions are a hot topic, 
and as you know there are indications that they are nontrivial to get right even 
in pp, so this would definitely add valuable constraints on the MC models. You 
can add "also for Peter" on the Xi and Omega yields, since I am also highly 
interested in those :) I'm less of an expert on J/psi myself, but it is 
certainly interesting from the point of view of being both clean experimentally 
and an interesting probe of onium formation.

I do have access to some limited funds via the LPCC. I'm not sure yet how much 
support we could get but a few weeks does not sound impossible. Otherwise, I 
also have some funds via MCnet, that it might be possible to make use of.

What would be the time scale for the projects?

Peter

On 3/11/13 11:54 AM, Antonin Maire wrote:
> Good morning Peter,
>
>      I come back to you with a question related to MCplot/Rivet (a n^th time...).
> Since quite some time, I wanted to come into the Rivet business; it could happen
> that I finally come into this over the next months.
>
> In Heidelberg, bachelor students have to perform a 3-month training period in
> the frame of their degree course.
> I would like to work with one of them on a Rivet project.
> As an alternative, some PhD students around me expressed some interest for this
> kind of work.
>
> My idea at the moment would that we work essentially from Heidelberg but also
> try to spend 1-2 weeks at CERN at some point.
> Given my current activities and the ones of the ALICE group in Heidelberg, I
> could think about different topics to be rivetized :
>
> - J/psi cross-section = f(particle multiplicity) in pp 7 TeV
>      ALICE, PLB, http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.2816
>
> - intra-jet cross-sections of K0s and Lambda in pp
>      (ongoing PhD, on Pb-Pb data though.)
>
> - Xi and Omega yields in pp 7 TeV...
>      (ALICE PLB http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0282 ... rather for me)
>
> I would like to know if such topics may be of some interest for the MC community
> and in case, what is the status of your funding possibility, say for 2 people,
> 1-2 weeks at CERN.
> (Heidelberg group may be able to contribute if needed.)
>
> Cheers,
>      Antonin